Podere Castellinuzza Chianti Classico 2021 CRV but finished predominantly in first-fill

but finished predominantly in first-fill American bourbon barrels

This is distinctly smooth

This wine is sublime young

with honeyed white flowers on the nose and a palate that stays crisp rather than tipping into richness

Podere Castellinuzza Chianti Classico 2021 CRV but finished predominantly in first-fillPaolo Coccia has more than seventy harvests behind him, which is not a typo. His family sharecropped this hillside in Lamole from the early 1900s and finally bought it outright in 1962; today he farms it with his daughter Serena and an all female family crew. Lamole is the high, cool, sandy corner of Chianti Classico, and the wines it makes are the light footed, floral, red fruited kind rather than the muscular kind three and a half hectares of vines,